1986     1986: National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) established 1998: NCCS sponsors "The March…Coming Together to Conquer Cancer" on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on September 25 and 26; days later, Congress awards a 16-percent increase in NCI funding 1996: Office of Cancer Survivorship (OCS) established at NCI 1997: Lance Armstrong Foundation 1 established 1997: NCI releases Long-Term Cancer Survivors Research RFA 2002: OCS and the American Cancer Society (ACS) host the first biennial cancer survivorship research conference 2, Cancer Survivorship: Resilience Across the Lifespan, in Washington, D.C. 2003: President's Cancer Panel selects cancer survivorship as a focus 3 for fiscal years 2003 and 2004         2003: Institute of Medicine (IOM) releases a key report 4 on childhood cancer survivorship 2004: Children's Oncology Group releases guidelines 5 for follow-up care of childhood cancer survivors 2005: IOM releases a key report 6 on adult cancer survivorship 2003: ACS releases health behavior guidelines 7 for cancer patients and survivors 2005: The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 8 creates a committee to develop guidelines for survivors' follow-up care and a "Survivorship" track for its annual scientific meetings         2006: October marks the 20th anniversary of NCCS and the 10th of OCS     2006

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1	http://www.livestrong.org
2	http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jissue/112149173?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
3	http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/advisory/pcp/pcp03-04rpt/Supplement.pdf
4	http://www.nap.edu/books/0309088984/html
5	http://www.childrensoncologygroup.org/disc/LE/default.htm
6	http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11468.html
7	http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/cgi/reprint/53/5/268.pdf
8	http://www.asco.org